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TWO Gold for this velvety Right Bank Bordeaux

Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux lies bang next door to Saint Emilion - same hills, same soils, same grapes. Without the grand name, its wines tend to be very well priced ... as this two-time Gold-medal beauty shows

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90pts, FIVE Gold and counting ... this is a ‘must-have’ Bordeaux!

This glorious, 90pt, FIVE-time Gold-medal claret comes from Ludovic Roussillon – who also co-owns a small property with the Thienpont family of legendary (and extraordinarily expensive) Château Le Pin.

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Smooth, fruit-rich, FOUR-Gold Médoc from a family château and an outstanding vintage

British wine critic Will Lyons wrote: “Put quite simply there were some sensational wines made in Bordeaux in 2015 and anyone who enjoys drinking claret will love them.” Château Roquegrave is a prime example, boasting no fewer than four Gold medals.

As wine writer Oz Clarke writes, “Top Castillons are already good enough to make many Saint Emilion proprietors blush”, while famous names such as Derenoncourt and Graf von Neipperg have bought estates there. This one comes from the sensational 2016 vintage - it's superb.

On the border of Pauillac, home to three First Growths, Ramage La Batisse clocks up a haul of Golds every vintage. This is their ‘second wine’, usually reserved for family and friends. A very approachable top vintage Bordeaux!

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Prestige
Bordeaux, with its many chateaux and famous 1855 Classification, is
the fine wine capital of the world. Home to an abundance of the world’s most famed wine estates, Bordeaux comprises only a small proportion of the area’s 120,000ha of vines. Vineyard plantings are large, always boasting an impressive chateau in front.

Location
Bordeaux is made up of the left bank on the Atlantic Ocean side of the rivers Gironde and Garonnne, and the right bank to the right and north of the Dordogne river. Left Bank wines are mostly Cabernet Sauvignon predominant fleshed out with Merlot; Right Bank wines contain more Merlot balanced by a smaller proportion of Cabernet. The area in between the rivers is known as Entre Deux Mers – ‘between two seas’ – and is home to crisp white wines.

Key appellations
There are 57 appellations across Bordeaux, making it the biggest producer of appellation wines in France.

The Right Bank includes:
St-Emilion - Premiers grands crus include Ausone and Cheval Blanc
Pomerol - home to tiny estates and ‘garagistes’, and bien sur, Petrus. Levels of dense blue clay in the vineyards are among the highest in the world.
Sauternes & Barsac – home to some of the most famous botrytis wines, such as Château d’Yquem.

Key grape varieties:
Designated red grape varieties in Bordeaux are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Carmenere. The main white varieties are Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, the former being the foundation of Bordeaux’s sweet wines of Sauternes and Barsac. Bordeaux also makes excellent dry white wines, for example under the AOC Graves or AOC Bordeaux labels.

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